There have already been classes offered at colleges around the country relating to marijuana, including the legal issues surrounding legalization and how cannabis is portrayed in the media. Louisiana State University is even growing medical marijuana in a partnership with a private company.
That’s all interesting, but no school has offered an entire degree program focused on the marijuana industry. Until now.
Northern Michigan University, located in the state's remote Upper Peninsula, has launched a four-year program that allows students to graduate with a degree in Medical Plant Chemistry. The focus is not only on learning the biology and chemistry of marijuana, but also on preparing students for a career in the cannabis industry.
That means graduates can roll out of the program and into the marijuana industry, working in grow houses or research labs where new strains of marijuana are created and tested. It also means a salary of around $70,000 right out of school, the program’s creator told CNBC.
Science, business and marketing in one degree.
The program actually focuses on more than just cannabis horticulture. Over four years, students also delve into financial management and marketing in the marijuana industry.
So far, a dozen students have entered the program. One of them, Alex Roth, told the Detroit Free Press the coursework is far more difficult than people might initially think: “When they hear what my major is, there are a lot of people who say, 'Wow, cool, dude. You're going to get a degree growing marijuana.’ It’s not an easy degree at all,” Roth said.
So why launch the program now? According to the school, legalization of marijuana in states across the country means “a national shift away from the prohibition of cannabis has been signaled.” And that means the time is ripe for people who specialize in studying how marijuana can best be used for medicinal purposes.
The medical benefits of marijuana.
Northern Michigan University is located near the shore of Lake Superior in the town of Marquette, between the Ottawa and Hiawatha national forests. It’s far off the beaten path. But the cannabis program is cutting edge.
In creating the program, the school looks to be the first to educate scientists specifically on the creation and testing of marijuana strains that can impact the health of users. The school notes such research is nothing new, as “natural products chemistry” has helped healthcare by identifying and synthesizing compounds based on chemicals produced in nature.
In short, no one knows all the ways medical marijuana can benefit people, and the world needs people trained to figure it out.
The university’s goal is to produce graduates who are both well-versed in the biology and chemistry of marijuana as well as in the entrepreneurial aspects of the marijuana industry.
“The additional focus on entrepreneurship and laboratory accreditation standards means that our graduates will not only be qualified to perform the instrumental analysis in a laboratory, but will also be empowered to build their own testing laboratory, dispensary and growing operation from the ground up,” the school states on its website.
#1: Deckard To: Gatlin (#0)
Good to see that this University is preparing their students for the future.
Thanks for the tip - I'll pass it on to the News Department.
It also means a salary of around $70,000 right out of school, the program’s creator told CNBC.
Can't laugh at that, can you Reefer Madness boy?
Deckard posted on 2017-11-07 07:05:32 Reply Private Reply
#2: Gatlin To: Deckard (#1)
Some drug dealers get around 2-3k a night while 0thers are making 500k-1 million a night.
Can’t laugh at that, can you pothead?
Gatlin posted on 2017-11-07 07:41:32 Reply Private Reply
#3: Deckard To: Gatlin (#2)
So you are suggesting that they forgo their education and become pot dealers?
Man, you are one confused idiot.
Deckard posted on 2017-11-07 07:44:08 Reply Private Reply
#4: Gatlin To: Deckard (#1)
Why do they need a degree?
It’s something any idiot can learn without wasting time in college.
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Can’t laugh at that, can you pothead?
Gatlin posted on 2017-11-07 07:45:26 Reply Private Reply
#5: Gatlin To: Deckard (#3)
What an ass hole yuu are ...
Gatlin posted on 2017-11-07 07:46:55 Reply Private Reply
#6: Deckard To: Gatlin (#5)
Good god, even you can't be this dense.
Northern Michigan University, located in the state's remote Upper Peninsula, has launched a four-year program that allows students to graduate with a degree in Medical Plant Chemistry. The focus is not only on learning the biology and chemistry of marijuana, but also on preparing students for a career in the cannabis industry.
Deckard posted on 2017-11-07 07:50:51 Reply Private Reply
#7: Gatlin To: Deckard (#3)
Do you call what kids are learning in college these days from liberal professors “an education?”
Do you say what kids are doing at colleges these days is getting “an education?”
You know nothing about getting an education….all you know and all that you are interested in is promoting your lawlessness drug culture.You are one sick depraved puppy …
It’s high time for you to grow up!
Gatlin posted on 2017-11-07 08:37:10 Reply Private Reply
#8: Gatlin To: Deckard (#6)
Okay, then why do they need a degree in marijuana to facilitate the selling of pot?
Gatlin posted on 2017-11-07 08:38:55 Reply Private Reply
#9: rlk To: Gatlin (#0)
Higher education at its most worthless and subversive.
rlk posted on 2017-11-07 10:21:01 Reply Private Reply
#10: Deckard To: rlk (#9)
I'd say psychology/psychiatry are two of the most worthless degrees you can get.
The profession only exists so mentally fucked up people with serious issues can get a job.
Deckard posted on 2017-11-07 10:37:12 Reply Private Reply
#11: rlk To: Deckard (#10)
It shouldn't be that way, but it is.
Unfortunately, corruption of psychology and psychiatry are adaptable to countercultural politics and that has become the thrust of the fields. Psychology are legitimate and demanding professions, but the legitimacy has been discarded.
rlk posted on 2017-11-09 01:08:41 Reply Private Reply
#12: Liberator To: rlk (#11)
Sorry. Psychology has never been legit.
Are there some helpful theories? Understanding and solutions to some dysfunctional human behavior? Sure, I'll give you that...
The problem is that as a supposed "science," it was doomed from the start. Psychology by default dismisses the spiritual aspect. (And before you rail on, I don't believe in a "Christian" psychology either.)
Psychology's high priests -- Freud and Jung -- were drug-addled lunatics, themselves haunted by inner confusion and chaos. Add on a bunch of usual suspects -- nihilist late 19th century Germans -- and it winds up evolving into a field that was doomed to evolve into today's corruption and chaos.
Liberator posted on 2017-11-09 09:33:33 Reply Private Reply
#13: Deckard To: Liberator, rlk (#12)
Psychology and psychiatry are really no different than Scientology.
Deckard posted on 2017-11-09 10:12:27 Reply Private Reply
#14: Liberator To: Gatlin (#7)
So sez the same uneducated, confused person who once boasted about the ACLU, listing ALL the reasons they supported the "law" in a looong, unhinged rant at Liberty Post.
Liberator posted on 2017-11-09 10:21:55 Reply Private Reply
#15: Liberator To: Deckard (#13)
Hear ya.
The above fields are contrived philosophical pseudo-"sciences," and a cults onto itself, ones that babbles on about theory, not necessarily truths. They happen stumble into an occasional solution by connecting a few obvious dots.
Those in both fields are often mental heath candidates, engaging in projection and false superiority complexes.
Liberator posted on 2017-11-09 10:27:35 Reply Private Reply